I’m still surprised that such a direct reference made it into HotS. I mean just look at this.I jokingly call her Zamus Aram sometimes (aram stands for “all random all mid” and is a game mode on MOBAs. Zamus is a Nerf Now reference).

It was a good movie if you ignore the Final Fantasy title attached to it. Outside of Cid and the overarching theme of an asteroid ruining everything (asteroids were a thing in Final Fantasy V, Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy VII too) it had nothing in common.

I, for one, welcome this change of gameplay style. They had seven games to experiment and refine the old combat system, and now they try out something new since this is a new main character and all. As long as the combat has a new feature or two, and isn’t too repetitive, it should be fine.

Don’t expect a hidden gem here that can stand toe to toe with the likes of Super Metroid or Hollow Knight. The metroidvania stuff is new and exciting for Mega Man standards, but ultimately fails to deliver.But I don’t want to detract you from giving the games a try yourself, just go in with low expectations and enjoy…

Not gonna lie, the screenshot from doesn’t look any better than something I could’ve achieved with an emulator. If I remember correctly from an older news, though, they wanted to add shadows to the game. Looks like they replaced the blob shadows with proper silhouettes, so there’s that at least.

The base game is working perfectly-fine, and there exist mods for it as well to make it look prettier, but hey the more evil Glados stepsister the better. Perhaps this is done to prepare for a console release as well? Heck, it’ll get a Switch port at the very least, every game does nowadays.

I remember that they hit 2 million an hour into the second-last run. I had to work afterwards unfortunately, but that means... they gathered 1 million within the remaining 7 hours of the marathon? Wow.